2015年8月6日 星期四

2015-08-07 U.K. Health


The Guardian
   
Price tags on NHS medicines 'may make patients fear they are burden on society'   
The Guardian
Antibiotic capsules. From next year, NHS prescription medicines costing more than £20 will have their cost and the words 'funded by the UK taxpayer' on the packaging. Photograph: Realimage/Alamy. James Meikle. Thursday 6 August 2015 18.30 EDT Last ...

Plan to put price tag on NHS medicines is a 'headline-grabbing gimmick', says ...   The Independent
Jeremy Hunt blasted over controversial plans to put price labels on NHS drugs   Mirror.co.uk
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PMLiVE   
EurekAlert (press release)   
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Daily Mail
   
Cancer treatment is delayed for a year by NHS red tape   
Daily Mail
Nivolumab – a groundbreaking lung cancer drug that could extend the lives of thousands – is being launched in the UK for the first time today. But NHS patients will be denied access to the drug for at least a year – and potentially far longer – as ...
Cancer patients miss out on revolutionary drug   The Times (subscription)
Lung cancer drug delay slammed as nivolumab is pulled from early access scheme   Belfast Telegraph
Breakthrough means the life expectancy of some patients with lung cancer could ...   Western Daily Press

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Engage: Alcohol guidelines ignore how people drink – that's why they're not heeded   
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As part of the government's strategy to cut the human and economic cost of alcohol misuse, it currently recommends that men and women shouldn't regularly drink more than three to four and two to three units a day respectively. In theory, such ...
'Booze' loving Brits don't abide by drinking guidelines   Financial Express
Alcohol guidelines unrealistic and ignored, say experts   OnMedica
Alcohol advice should give us 'binge drink' limits   Telegraph.co.uk
BBC News   
iAfrica.com   
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The Guardian
   
Lancashire residents urged to boil drinking water   
The Guardian
Residents of a large area of Lancashire including Blackpool, Preston and Chorley were affected by the warning to boil their drinking water. Photograph: Lucy Lambriex/Getty Images/Flickr RF. Press Association. Thursday 6 August 2015 18.17 EDT Last ...

Lancashire families told to boil tap water over water treatment plant bug   Belfast Telegraph

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CBS News
   
Retired nurse commits suicide to avoid growing old   
WKRC TV Cincinnati
UNDATED (CBS) -- Gill Pharaoh, a 75-year-old woman from Britain with no serious health issues, decided to end her life at a Swiss euthanasia clinic on July 21 with her partner of 25 years by her side, sparking renewed debate over the right to die ...
Gill Pharaoh was unusual - most hospice workers oppose assisted dying   The Independent
The assisted suicide of Gill Pharaoh reminds us that there are actually limits ...   National Right to Life News
Healthy nurse, 75, chooses death over 'going downhill'   Bulletin Leader
The Local.ch   
Daily Mail   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Stranger's act of kindness to cancer mother   
Telegraph.co.uk
A daughter who tried to buy a second-hand Nutribullet smoothie maker to help her mother's cancer battle was amased when the stranger she was trying to buy from bought her mother a new one after hearing of her plight. Cara Grace Duggan wrote to a seller ...

This man's wonderful act of kindness to an Irish woman will melt your heart   Yahoo News UK
Woman buying used Nutribullet for mom with cancer gets heartwarming surprise ...   FOX CT
Belfast woman overwhelmed by kindness of stranger who wanted to help her mum ...   Belfast Live

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Scotsman
   
NHS faced 'prolonged' pressure from winter flu   
Scotsman
Scotland s NHS had the highest pressures from respiratory illness in the past ten years in winter 2014-15. Picture: Contributed. ANDREW WHITAKER. 02:21 Friday 07 August 2015. 0. Have your say. SCOTLAND'S health service faced “increased and ...

Scottish GPs provide almost one million consultations out of hours   Pulse
Scottish government issues winter health guidance   BBC News
NHS must learn winter pressure lessons, Shona Robison says   Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra
The Times (subscription)   
Herald Scotland   
Today's GP (press release)   
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Health Service Journal
   
Monitor to investigate Cambridge trust's finances following IT project problems   
Health Service Journal
PERFORMANCE: Monitor is to investigate Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust following concerns that a problematic implementation of an electronic patient record system has hit its finances. Monitor to investigate Cambridge University ...

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AstraZeneca sees hope for Lynparza in UK   
PharmaTimes
There may yet be hope for AstraZeneca's Lynparza in the UK as NICE offers the company the chance to provide more evidence in a specific indication. The latest appraisal consultation document on Lynparza (olaparib) reiterates that the pricing watchdog ...


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WalesOnline
   
You can stay in this gorgeous villa in Ibiza for free but there's a very weird ...   
WalesOnline
Guests will have to check-in to a room that is covered entirely in pictures of sexually transmitted diseases and warnings to practise safe sex. The bed in the apartment. Nicknamed 'Condom-inium', the apartment has been created by chemist Superdrug to ...
Free Ibiza stay for single Brits - if they don't mind pictures of sex diseases ...   Mirror.co.uk
This Ibiza apartment is FREE - but is covered in safe sex and STI messages   Daily Mail
Superdrug's Ibiza STI warning holiday home seeks Kent and Sussex singles   Kent and Sussex Courier
Sevenoaks Chronicle   
Aberdeen Press and Journal   
JOE   
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